{"id":442,"date":"2008-06-01T15:07:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T14:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=442"},"modified":"2009-09-26T11:45:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T10:45:35","slug":"news-from-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"News from the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tempers have been flaring in the Dutch Hoofdklasse.  Mister-Baseball reports<\/a> that the Corendon Kinheim and the Konica Minolta Pioniers had a bit of a brawl a couple of weeks ago following a bench clearing incident, with hefty suspensions being handed out to seven players as a result.  The two teams involved are clearly channeling that aggression in the right way most of the time, as they currently occupy<\/a> the top two positions in the Dutch Major League, with Konica Minolta at 13-4 and Corendon one game behind on 14-5.<\/p>\n

There is a photo from the Dutch brawl game on the New York times website (it’s not a photo of the brawl though) that accompanies a well-written piece<\/a> about baseball in the Netherlands.  This includes the interesting tidbit that Johan Cruyff began his sporting career as a catcher.  The next time a football fan tries to criticise baseball, you might want to tell him that it was good enough for Cruyff.<\/p>\n

And continuing with the Dutch theme, Braves pitcher Jair Jurrjens made a bit of history last night, although not in the way he would have liked.  Ken Griffey Jr struck career home run number 599 off the twenty-two year old from Curacao.  Did you know that he has already gained his own fan club<\/a> among the Braves fans?  They go by the name of the Jurrjens Surgeons!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tempers have been flaring in the Dutch Hoofdklasse.  Mister-Baseball reports that the Corendon Kinheim and the Konica Minolta Pioniers had a bit of a brawl a couple of weeks ago following a bench clearing incident, with hefty suspensions being handed out to seven players as a result.  The two teams involved are clearly channeling that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[553],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-mlb-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4578,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/4578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}